A Florida man claimed the top prize from a $5,000 A Week For Life scratch-off game.
The Florida Lottery recently announced that Ricky Tharpe, of Perry, claimed a $5,000 a week for life top prize from the $5,000 A Week For Life scratch-off game.
The Florida man chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $3,897,000.
The Taylor County winner purchased his winning ticket from Skyline Xpress, located at 1111 N. Byron Butler Parkway in Perry.
He claimed the top prize at Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee.
You can win over $158 million in total cash prizes with $5,000 A Week For Life scratch-off game. For just $10, players can win one of four top prizes of $5,000 a week for life. There is one top prize remaining according to the Florida Lottery.
The game’s overall odds of winning are 1 in 3.30.
Scratch-off games are an important part of the Lottery’s portfolio of games, comprising approximately 74 percent of ticket sales in fiscal year 2025-2026. Additionally, since inception, scratch-off games have awarded more than $73.5 billion in prizes, created 2,544 millionaires, and generated more than $21.6 billion for the state’s Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (EETF).
The Florida Lottery is responsible for contributing more than $51 billion to enhance education and sending more than one million students to college through the Bright Futures Scholarship Program. The Florida Lottery reinvests 99 percent of its revenue into Florida’s economy through prize payouts, commissions to more than 13,600 Lottery retailers, and transfers to education. Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have paid over $110 billion in prizes and created more than 4,900 millionaires.
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